I, personally, have not been overly affected by the closing of Hostess due to finance/labor/etc troubles. I always found the Twinkies to be a bit bland and such commercial goodies were never much available at our house as dinner consisted of meat, potatoes and dessert. No Twinkies.
However, husband saw the news and immediately went to the store and purchased 10 blackberry pies (hand size?) and he got me some chocolate sumpin' sumpin'. He would eat the blackberry pies as a youth for a Sabbath treat. Now his mother would have prepared the traditional blackberry cobbler but there was just something about this forbidden snack that appealed to his blackberry starved soul. He mused that he would freeze them and savor them on a yearly basis. According to the news, Hostess may have been sold off to the money brokers of Wall Street but some of the brands may mysteriously reappear on the market in the future. We plan to use a box of the Hostess cupcakes as a gag gift at the auction at the next Christmas party and see if there is a lot of turn over before it is finally claimed.
Since I am remembering other food memories, it was not that unusual for Dad to announce to all to get in the car, we're going for a drive. This usually involved getting a gallon of root beer in a jug, a dozen maple bars and a couple cans of Vienna sausage. Thus stocked, we would drive the bench, the valley and Mom and Dad would argue about who lived where and then that school was closed and what Power line Dad may have worked on for the Power company. Pure boredom for us ravenous omnivores sitting the back seats (station wagon, lots of kids). Occasionally if the finances were riding more generously Dad would pick up an oven roasted chicken and we might even have been let out of the car at a park to consume the food and being thorough little omnivores even cracked and chewed the well baked chicken bones.
As a final aside, to this day I do not particularly care for root beer, maples bars or Vienna sausage. ......
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Rich and I love Rootbeer Floats. He says that was one of your dad's favorite treats. But not your mom's. I do like maple bars, but not in conjunction with rootbeer. As for Vienna sausages, someone else can have those. Not my favorite at all. Cathy
Rich says not to forget the cheese whiz, Ritz crackers and Sardines. And the occassional quart tub of frosty from Roe Ann's. Can't leave out the occassional trip to the Golden Dragon! Shrimp fried rice is still one of Rich's favorite dishes.
No one had introduced Rachel to the joyful experience that is a 'ding-dong' so I took it upon myself to share that tasty treat with her when she was about 11yo..l of course she loved them so we bought a box, wrapped it up and it was one of her gifts on a cheery Christmas morning.
I still like the occasional sardine on a ritz cracker, thank you Dad. Hate Root Beer anything, but that's me, nothing to do with the parental units.
I do remember the sardines on a Ritz cracker and don't forget the little glass bottles of creamed cheese,I really liked the pineapple flavor, but I think Dad favored pimento cheese. I think.
And he did jokingly pronounce them Horse Doovers.
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